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T.S. Eliot wrote the poem ''The Waste Land'', a poem that is acknowledged as one of the most influential poems of the 20th century.  ''The Waste Land'' is written in five main sections, each of which are a collection of disjointed and dissimilar thoughts and ideas from perspectives that vary from across history.  It's not a poem to understand on the first read. 

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== Eliot Quotes ==
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"It is strange that words are so inadequate.  Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity." 

"People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events."

"I don't believe one grows older.  I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."

"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.  They don't mean to do harm.  But the harm does not interest them."

== Fun Fact ==
My dad did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with the Will Rogers statue outside in office in Claremore. Go dad. 

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